Team

Desiree Lee

Vinyasa Yoga Instructor and Kundalini Teacher

Desiree Lee is a certified Vinyasa Yoga Instructor and Kundalini Teacher as well as a Reiki Master and Artist. She uses her creativity and intuition to craft a unique, strength building & spiritual practice. She guides a variety of yoga classes from Vinyasa and Sculpt to Yin and Kundalini. Desiree enjoys to play with the balance of fun and self discipline, of strength and surrender, of yin and yang energy. She loves to plant seeds of thought that encourages students to look within and find the mirror of life in our yoga practice.

Lindsey Pluimer

Lindsey is a 500-hour certified yoga instructor, but continues to expand her yoga studies, attending many workshops with amazing teachers.

Lindsey was first introduced to yoga while attending UCLA where she was playing on the women’s basketball team. Upon graduating, she traveled overseas to play professional basketball in Sydney, Australia and Pamplona, Spain. It was in the land down under, with world-renowned yogi Duncan Peak of Power Living Yoga, where Lindsey found her passion for yoga. Back in America during her off-season and wanting to share her passion with others, she attended teacher training.Lindsey has studied with Seane Corn, Maty Ezraty, Hala Khouri, Kumudini Ma Nithya among others. She, now a...

Lindsey is a 500-hour certified yoga instructor, but continues to expand her yoga studies, attending many workshops with amazing teachers.

Lindsey was first introduced to yoga while attending UCLA where she was playing on the women’s basketball team. Upon graduating, she traveled overseas to play professional basketball in Sydney, Australia and Pamplona, Spain. It was in the land down under, with world-renowned yogi Duncan Peak of Power Living Yoga, where Lindsey found her passion for yoga. Back in America during her off-season and wanting to share her passion with others, she attended teacher training.Lindsey has studied with Seane Corn, Maty Ezraty, Hala Khouri, Kumudini Ma Nithya among others. She, now a 500-hour certified yoga instructor, continues to further her love for yoga and expand her studies.

Bridging her yoga with social activism, Lindsey founded the nonprofit foundation, With My Own Two Hands Foundation (www.withmyown2hands.org), seeking to provide sustainable solutions to projects benefiting children in need in Africa. Lindsey regularly travels to Africa with her foundation, taking her yoga off the mat and into the world.

Sheree

Sheree began practicing yoga in 2006, and became a certified teacher in 2010. Inspired by yoga’s transformative power—both internally and externally, she strives to provide a safe, light-hearted class atmosphere that allows students of all levels to feel successful in their practice. She guides each class with an emphasis on developing body awareness and a balance between strength and flexibility. Her classes range from peaceful and relaxing to sweat-inducing vinyasa flows, but always expect playful and unique sequencing with plenty of options (from modifications to up-levels), and a warm & friendly teaching style.

Diana Tree

In 2012, after completing Level 2 Teacher Training with Baron Baptiste, Diana became a certified RYT 200 yoga instructor. Her classes are inspired by the Baptiste Yoga methodology, focusing on breath and body awareness.

Being of service and empowering people through yoga is a passion Diana fulfills by teaching locally at Beyond Hot Yoga in Laguna Niguel and growing her online community, hitPLAYyoga.com.

Students of all levels are encouraged to access the power within themselves as Diana offers space for exploration and growth in every class.

Debby Dowling

E-RYT 200

Debby Dowling, E-RYT 200, has been a fitness and pilates instructor since 2007. After taking yoga on and off for 15 years as just a way to stretch, she finally got the true meaning of yoga once she hit her 40s and fell in love. She began practicing almost daily and it was only through yoga that her body began to change in ways that it never did before. Debby is living proof that yoga truly turns back the hands of time for both your body AND your mind. Her classes are designed to be fun yet challenging in a way that helps all of her students make the physical, emotional and spiritual connection. Forever a student, Debby has also had the opportunity to practice and train with other great yogis including; Seane Corn,...

Debby Dowling, E-RYT 200, has been a fitness and pilates instructor since 2007. After taking yoga on and off for 15 years as just a way to stretch, she finally got the true meaning of yoga once she hit her 40s and fell in love. She began practicing almost daily and it was only through yoga that her body began to change in ways that it never did before. Debby is living proof that yoga truly turns back the hands of time for both your body AND your mind. Her classes are designed to be fun yet challenging in a way that helps all of her students make the physical, emotional and spiritual connection. Forever a student, Debby has also had the opportunity to practice and train with other great yogis including; Seane Corn, Kelly Doyle, Briohny & Dice lida Klein and is currently studying under Shiva Rae to complete her 500 hour training.

Shannon Mancini

Shannon Mancini is a true southern belle at heart, spending her first 22 years in the suburbs of Georgia, but now has the pleasure of residing in Laguna Niguel, California with her husband Mike. Shannon has been teaching Vinyasa Flow Yoga for over 3 years, but her journey started off completely different than where it is presently. When she moved here in 2007, a friend convinced her to try Bikram Yoga, and for a couple of years this suited her type-A personality of go further, push harder, do more. It wasn’t until she developed an injury where she had to step back and take a look at WHY she was spending 90 minutes in a 115 degree room at 50% humidity to only usually feel depleted and unfulfilled after? After taking ...

Shannon Mancini is a true southern belle at heart, spending her first 22 years in the suburbs of Georgia, but now has the pleasure of residing in Laguna Niguel, California with her husband Mike. Shannon has been teaching Vinyasa Flow Yoga for over 3 years, but her journey started off completely different than where it is presently. When she moved here in 2007, a friend convinced her to try Bikram Yoga, and for a couple of years this suited her type-A personality of go further, push harder, do more. It wasn’t until she developed an injury where she had to step back and take a look at WHY she was spending 90 minutes in a 115 degree room at 50% humidity to only usually feel depleted and unfulfilled after? After taking a well needed break, she returned to a different studio with a similar sequence, but the atmosphere was the total opposite of what she had been used to. At the end of her first class, she laid in savasana, and couldn’t help but cry because this was the feeling she was looking for all those years, just in the wrong place. It was through her connection to her breath that she discovered a completely different element to her yoga practice. Shannon truly believes that developing a harmonious connection with ones breath allows us to come into a state of being completely present, and it is in these moments where healing truly happens. She teaches her classes with a certain grace that supports the softer side we all are deeply desperate to expose. Her fascination with music and the ability it has to heal guides her to build playlists that support movement and openness as her students flow through class. Her goal as a teacher is to provide a space where students can come practice without judgment, expectation, or ego, but just from the heart, honoring whatever their souls have to offer that day.

Kelsey Lang

I began my yoga journey in the summer of 2011 and like a spark to light my inner fire a steady hot vinyasa practice lit me up. I was inspired to share what I found in myself with others through yoga. My aim as a teacher is to empower the people around me and in the community to live the life they love. My classes focus on breath and awareness either flowing through or relaxing into balanced and thoughtful sequences. I teach vinyasa, the 26 Bikram Hot Yoga postures, restorative, and yin yoga styles as well as meditation and Yoga Nidra. I am also Reiki II certified, trained in EFT, and host classes/workshops on Essential Oils. I am currently continuing my education as a Holistic Health Practitioner and massage...

I began my yoga journey in the summer of 2011 and like a spark to light my inner fire a steady hot vinyasa practice lit me up. I was inspired to share what I found in myself with others through yoga. My aim as a teacher is to empower the people around me and in the community to live the life they love. My classes focus on breath and awareness either flowing through or relaxing into balanced and thoughtful sequences. I teach vinyasa, the 26 Bikram Hot Yoga postures, restorative, and yin yoga styles as well as meditation and Yoga Nidra. I am also Reiki II certified, trained in EFT, and host classes/workshops on Essential Oils. I am currently continuing my education as a Holistic Health Practitioner and massage therapist. I am passionate and humbled by the sacred journey yoga has to offer. I invite students to explore with me, open the doors of their mind, body, and spirit to discover their present being and potential.

Carolyn Long

E-RYT, ECP, Holistic Healer

Carolyn Long E-RYT passion for yoga began in 2000 when she first discovered Jason Wynn’s class at Bikram Yoga, Laguna Beach.

Carolyn was immediately addicted by the physical and mental challenge and greatly inspired by the sense of peace, calmness and grounding she felt after leaving class.

Being a group fitness instructor for many years prior, as a natural progression, Carolyn completed her yoga teacher training in 2009. She is 200hr E-RYT Yoga Alliance Certified in Power Vinyasa Yoga levels 1, 2 and 3, Hot Power Fusion, Yoga Sculpt and Meditation. Carolyn also is now certified in Yoga for Cancer Management and guides cancer patients, cancer warriors and care givers. She currently teaches at Beyond Hot Yoga,...

Carolyn Long E-RYT passion for yoga began in 2000 when she first discovered Jason Wynn’s class at Bikram Yoga, Laguna Beach.

Carolyn was immediately addicted by the physical and mental challenge and greatly inspired by the sense of peace, calmness and grounding she felt after leaving class.

Being a group fitness instructor for many years prior, as a natural progression, Carolyn completed her yoga teacher training in 2009. She is 200hr E-RYT Yoga Alliance Certified in Power Vinyasa Yoga levels 1, 2 and 3, Hot Power Fusion, Yoga Sculpt and Meditation. Carolyn also is now certified in Yoga for Cancer Management and guides cancer patients, cancer warriors and care givers. She currently teaches at Beyond Hot Yoga, Laguna Niguel, CA. Melt Ladera Ranch, CA, KARMA Yoga at Treasure Island Park, Laguna Beach, CA a wide variety ofprivate clientele, host’s numerous Yoga workshops across the Country and Master Instructor for Teacher Training in Power Vinyasa levels 1, 2, Sculpt and Fusion.

“Being a group fitness instructor and Quality Life Coach I came to my yoga mat initially for the physical challenge but have been transformed/mystified/humbled by the emotional release and spiritual connection of yoga and am proud to announce that I’m walking the path and have eagerly taken my practice way beyond the mat”.

Carolyn Long ECP, Holistic Healer“Stress is the number 1 cause of inflammation in our body and the root cause of so many diseases and cancers…Emergence Care Therapy can help permanently release this stress, toxic residue and inflammation”.

Resident within you is the Power, Creative Energy that creates and sustains all of existence. This Creative Energy animates and heals you. Emergence Care Therapy is a profound and revolutionary means of working with this subtle, yet powerful energy and your physical body in a non-invasive manner that allows this Creative Power to be more clearly and fully expressed in its effulgence…to emerge from within and guide you in your life.Through the application of presence, Emergence Care Therapy cultivates the manifestation of this Power, and leads to the capacity for healing that has never before existed for you or humanity.While this capacity remains buried beneath an avalanche of mounting stress, tension and pressure, it remains dormant and cannot bedeveloped. Emergence Care Therapy enables you to release tremendous amounts of stored stress and tension from your mind, body and life. Your ability to release this long held stress is deepened through repeated applications of EC Therapy. It often develops to the extent that a person can be experiencing extreme stress that pervades every facet of life, and have this stress all but eliminated in an EC Therapy session, leaving the recipient in a state of peace and gratitude.

Message me for a session at my home office or I can come to you!Namaste

Deborah Miller

Deborah discovered yoga as a means of rehabilitation from competitive sports injuries that had resulted in multiple back surgeries and a 3 disc cervical fusion. What seemed like a temporary solution, Yoga became a lifestyle. Becoming so much more than the Asana's, yoga profoundly shifted Deborah's perspective. Deborah's enthusiasm for teaching comes through in her dynamic energy and creative flows that are designed to bring playfulness and challenge to all levels of practice...Always mindful of modifications, yoga meets you where you are..RIGHT NOW! Deborah brings her passion for sharing just how capable we all are when awareness is brought to the breath, intention is set for class and space for each pose is...

Deborah discovered yoga as a means of rehabilitation from competitive sports injuries that had resulted in multiple back surgeries and a 3 disc cervical fusion. What seemed like a temporary solution, Yoga became a lifestyle. Becoming so much more than the Asana's, yoga profoundly shifted Deborah's perspective. Deborah's enthusiasm for teaching comes through in her dynamic energy and creative flows that are designed to bring playfulness and challenge to all levels of practice...Always mindful of modifications, yoga meets you where you are..RIGHT NOW! Deborah brings her passion for sharing just how capable we all are when awareness is brought to the breath, intention is set for class and space for each pose is held...

just long enough for each individual to feel the connection to the pose within themselves, to gather information through self exploration and build TAPAS (endurance, inner, strength). It's an amazing connection. Deborah also emphasizes throughout practice the precepts of our yoga foundation, the 8 limbs. Setting the groundwork as a "yogini" to leave a better footprint, to be a good example, to care for the planet for the next generation and find compassion for self and others. It starts in the mind, calming the raging waters to ripples to smooth as glass. Right thoughts become right words, become right actions. It is a great start! Yoga is the fountain of youth! Smiling keeps the fountain flowing...:)